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Freshparsnip@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food

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Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food

Freshparsnip@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago
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    Another reason “I’m a rugged individual don’t tell me what to do” people are absolute fools.

    Benefitting from untold quantities of rules and regulations, thinking it’s all their personal merit, wanting to swing an axe at the branch they’re sitting on.

    I’ve had people tell me that “the market” would solve the problem is people were selling tainted food. idiots.

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      Such short memories.

      The market gave us sawdust and chalk in bread. Regulation took it back out.

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        Right?? I’m like, didn’t you learn anything in high school history? But then I know that conservatives have been attacking education for decades, and a lot of people just kind of slept through school.

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        Let’s not forget the river fires!

        https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/

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        Don’t forget formaldehyde and calf’s brains in milk!

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      I can’t think of a single time industry self regulation has ever resulted in a government not having to step in and level a petty fine to stop something from happening.

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        As far as I know, all media age-appropriate ratings in the US are industry self regulation. The government has threatened action but never actually stepped in.

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        Well to be fair, regulations like these don’t get added for things people don’t do.

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